A couple of years ago, while reading Mark Coggins’ book The Immortal Game, I decided to do a bit of a tribute to it in noir fashion. I first came to “know” Mark through Flickr, and we emailed back and forth a bit about his photos and his books.

So, one Saturday morning I shot the above image on the left, and sent it to him. He really liked it, so I was pleased with that.

Then, a few months later, when another of his books came out, Mark aped the image I did, and did his own, enlisting is wife as well. His image is on the right.